Word: central
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Peruvian friends are pleased with my choice. Dukakis talks peace in Central America, speaks Spanish and studied at Lima's University de San Marcos. Vice President George Bush is a former CIA head, part of an Administration that broke U.S. law to continue Nicaragua's civil war and a supporter of the Republican tradition in foreign policy. Every Republican since World War II has aided the bloody overthrow of a Latin American government...
When we as Americans vote, we vote not just for the United States, but for all America--North, Central, South and Caribbean. We vote for those who are permanently absent from our country's priorities, though permanently subject to its policies...
Those same names echoed throughout Europe last week as Yugoslavia confronted its most serious crisis since Marshal Tito's death in 1980. After years of weak central leadership, Yugoslavia's loose federation of six republics and two autonomous provinces seemed about to fall prey to a new plague of nationalism fomented by the numerically dominant Serbs and compounded by anger at disastrous economic management...
...trying to create a required curriculum," said John P. Walters, the new executive director of the Madison Center and Bennett's former chief of staff at the Education Department. "What we're trying to do is say that the central question in the higher education community should be, 'what are the most important works for undergradutes...
...central issue is the problem that American minority scholars face--both students and teachers--as they struggle from a minority perspective within the "majority culture" of white middle-class America. Asian Americans, Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans all wrote for the journal...